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India-Pakistan
Height of denial: JUI-F under attack
2013-05-09
[Dawn] WHILE more liberal parties have borne the brunt of election-related bad turban violence, as events over the past few days have shown the faceless myrmidons are just as capable of wreaking havoc upon even those political elements that share their ideological moorings. On Tuesday a blast occurred near a JUI-F candidate's corner meeting in Hangu, killing several people. Militants had earlier warned locals against attending political gatherings. Only a day before a JUI-F rally was bombed in Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
 killing over 20. Yet what is shocking is that former politician and current candidate Munir Khan Orakzai, who addressed the Kurram rally, denied that the Pak Taliban could be involved in the attack. This is mind-boggling. The TTP had very clearly stated that Mr Orakzai was indeed the target and justified the strike by saying that the former MNA was allied to the last government which had launched military operations against the bad turbans.

It appears as if practically the whole religious right is suffering from a state of denial. JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
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